Editing Amaterasu (section)

== Family ==
{{Further|Family tree of Japanese deities}}

=== Family tree ===
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=== Consorts ===
She is a virgin goddess and never engages in sexual relationships.<ref>{{Cite web |title="Alone among Women": A Comparative Mythic Analysis of the Development of Amaterasu Theology |url=https://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/kami/matsumura.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210126014124/http://www2.kokugakuin.ac.jp/ijcc/wp/cpjr/kami/matsumura.html |archive-date=2021-01-26 |access-date=2020-11-21 |website=2.kokugakuin.ac.jp}}</ref> However, according to {{ill|Nozomu Kawamura|ja|河村望}}, she was a consort to a sun god<ref>{{Cite book |last=Kawamura |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IihmAgAAQBAJ&q=virgin+amaterasu&pg=PA205 |title=Sociology & Society Of Japan |date=2013-12-19 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-79319-9 |pages=205 |language=en}}</ref> and some telling stories place [[Tsukuyomi]] as her husband.<ref name=":03">{{Cite web|title=Amaterasu|url=https://mythopedia.com/japanese-mythology/gods/amaterasu/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=Mythopedia.com|language=en}}</ref>

=== Siblings ===
Amaterasu has many siblings, most notably [[Susanoo-no-Mikoto|Susanoo]] and [[Tsukuyomi-no-Mikoto|Tsukiyomi]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Izanagi and Izanami {{!}} Shintō deity|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Izanagi|website=britannica.com|access-date=2020-11-20|language=en}}</ref> [[Basil Hall Chamberlain]] used the words "elder brother" to translate her dialog referring to Susanoo in the ''Kojiki'', even though he noted that she was his elder sister.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.sacred-texts.com/shi/kj/kj020.htm | title=The Kojiki: Volume I: Section XIII.—The August Oath|website=Sacred-texts.com }}</ref> The word (which was also used by Izanami to address her elder brother and husband Izanagi) was ''nase'' (phonetically spelt {{Lang|ja|那勢}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E5%8F%A4%E4%BA%8B%E8%A8%98/%E4%B8%8A%E5%8D%B7|title=古事記/上卷 - 维基文库，自由的图书馆|website=Zh.wikisource.org|access-date=26 June 2022}}</ref> in the ''Kojiki''; modern dictionaries use the semantic spelling {{Lang|ja|汝兄}}, whose [[kanji]] literally mean {{Gloss|my elder brother}}), an ancient term used only by females to refer to their brothers, who had higher status than them. (As opposed to males using {{nihongo|''nanimo''|汝妹|extra={{gloss|my younger sister}}}} ({{Lang|ja|那邇妹}} in the ''Kojiki'') to refer to their sisters, who had lower status than them.)<ref>{{cite book|title=スーパー大辞林|trans-title=Super [[Daijirin]]}}</ref> The ''Nihon Shoki'' used the Chinese word {{Lang|zh|弟}} ({{Gloss|younger brother}}) instead.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://zh.wikisource.org/wiki/%E6%97%A5%E6%9C%AC%E6%9B%B8%E7%B4%80/%E5%8D%B7%E7%AC%AC%E4%B8%80|title=日本書紀/卷第一 - 维基文库，自由的图书馆|website=Zh.wikisource.org|access-date=26 June 2022}}</ref>

Some tellings say she had a sister named [[Wakahiru-me|Wakahirume]] who was a weaving maiden and helped Amaterasu weave clothes for the other kami in [[Takamagahara|heaven]]. Wakahirume was later accidentally killed by Susanoo.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Amaterasu|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Amaterasu/|access-date=2020-11-20|website=[[World History Encyclopedia]]}}</ref>

Other traditions say she had an older brother named [[Ebisu (mythology)|Hiruko]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Coulter|first1=Charles Russell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VWxekbhM1yEC&q=amaterasu&pg=PT91|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities|last2=Turner|first2=Patricia|date=2013-07-04|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-96397-2|language=en}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2021}}

=== Descendants ===
{{Original research|date=September 2021}}
Amaterasu has five sons, [[Ame-no-oshihomimi]], [[Ame no Hohi]], [[Amatsuhikone]], [[Ikutsuhikone]], and [[Kumanokusubi]], who were given birth to by Susanoo by chewing her hair jewels. According to one account in the ''Nihon Shoki'', it was because these children were male that Susanoo won during the ritual to prove his intent, even though they were not his children, but hers. This explanation of the outcome of the ritual contradicts that in the ''Kojiki'', according to which it was because she gave birth to female children using his sword, and those children were his. The ''Kojiki'' claims he won because he had daughters to whom she gave birth, while the ''Nihon Shoki'' claims he won because he himself gave birth to her sons. Several figures and noble clans claim descent from Amaterasu most notably [[Imperial House of Japan|the Japanese imperial family]] through Emperor Jimmu who descended from her grandson [[Ninigi-no-Mikoto|Ninigi]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Kitagawa|first=Joseph Mitsuo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1xcc4cGL5cC&pg=PA145|title=On Understanding Japanese Religion|date=1987-10-21|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-10229-0|language=en}}</ref><ref name=":03" />

Her son [[Ame no Hohi]] is considered the ancestral [[kami]] of clans in [[Izumo Province|Izumo]] which includes the [[Haji clan]], [[Sugawara clan]], and the [[Senge clan]]. The legendary [[sumo]] wrestler [[Nomi no Sukune]] is believed to be a 14th-generation descendant of Amenohohi.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Kami in Classic Texts : Amenohohi|url=http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=33|access-date=2020-11-21|website=eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp|archive-date=2020-11-30|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130114722/http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=33|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Borgen|first=Robert|date=1975|title=The Origins of the Sugawara. A History of the Haji Family|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2383977|journal=Monumenta Nipponica|volume=30|issue=4|pages=405–422|doi=10.2307/2383977|jstor=2383977|issn=0027-0741}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Cali|first1=Joseph|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNV7LoexIgoC&q=Amenohohi|title=Shinto Shrines: A Guide to the Sacred Sites of Japan's Ancient Religion|last2=Dougill|first2=John|date=2012|publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3713-6|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sumo|url=https://www.worldhistory.org/Sumo/|access-date=2020-11-21|website=[[World History Encyclopedia]]}}</ref>